Beautiful step by step

Chapter 154

The clerk of Yingtianfu has an easy-to-remember surname—Gou.

After finding out about the privacy of Gou Shuli's back house, Yan Heng did not immediately publicize it.After all, the official Gou in front of the city gate had just provoked him that morning, and before dinner, the glamorous things in his back house were all over the streets and alleys, so it was too deliberate.Not only did he not publicize it himself, but he ordered the people who investigated the news to keep it secret.In order to keep them completely secret, he also paid for a new task, asking this person to go out of the city to find another person.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the capital city was already bustling with the sun.There are steaming breakfasts on the street, and the hawkers are yelling hard.

But when a person came over, no matter if it was the hawker shouting or the people sitting on the street gossiping and eating breakfast, they all quieted down and looked over in unison.In the morning mist, a middle-aged man with shirtless arms and a few firewood sticks tied on his back walked over, passed through the breakfast stall, and walked into the depths of the courtyard.

"This man is an official, the most noble civil official. Don't you know, yesterday in front of the city gate, he wronged an adult from the northwest."

Originally, after one night, the matter had almost settled down, but now that the scribe Gou is showing off in the market, people with good deeds talk about the cause and effect.

"Then why did you come out shirtless in the cold?"

The insider continued to popularize science: "Our Da Yue Law stipulates that the red mouth and white teeth will frame officials at will, and the government will take care of this matter. The lord from the northwest is kind. Although he almost sent him to prison, he made the big trouble small. , just let him make an apology."

The common people have an instinctive fear of the prison, seeing such a big matter, they just apologize and it's over. For a while, they felt that the lord was very lenient.

However, some curious people still asked: "Is it necessary to make such an apology?"

The insider was at a loss for words for a moment, and when everyone else had other thoughts, the person who had been eating the steamed buns beside him said.

"I was queuing up to enter the city yesterday, and I happened to witness this incident with my own eyes. I was bare-shouldered and carried a firewood stick. This act seemed to be called pleading guilty. There is a rule in the Dai Yue Law that you can not be sent to an official, but you must plead guilty. Let everyone know about it."

"And this one?"

"I think this is a good one, so that everyone can see the villain's true colors."

For a time, this statement was supported by most people.Gou Shuli walked all the way, passing by a series of breakfast stalls, and the people who saw him were curious, and the cause and effect quickly fermented.

When he walked all the way to the courtyard of the Wei Family, many people had already followed him with their hands in their hands.While eating big buns or fried dough sticks wrapped in oiled paper, everyone looked curiously at the scribe Gou who was kneeling in front of the door.

It's still early in the day, and the Wei family doesn't have so many rules of asking for a meal. They always sleep until they wake up naturally, and they even have breakfast much later.After Shuji Gou came, Wei's house hadn't opened yet.Kneeling in front of the door, his face was as ugly as it was.

It is true that there is a pleading guilty in the Dayue Law, and yesterday he recited this in front of the city gate in front of everyone.But for the same clause, often changing the way of implementation will change beyond recognition.After accepting yesterday, Gou Shuli had already thought about it.Early in the morning, he took a carriage and stopped at the door of Mr. Yan's house, taking advantage of the fact that there were fewer people, he meant that the matter would be over.

Even that was still embarrassing, but it was still within his limit.He had a good idea, but it was a pity that God failed to fulfill his wish.Yesterday, after greeting colleagues in Yingtian Mansion, and returning to the mansion with smears, he just got off his horse at the door of the house, when a figure flashed out from the darkness.The man warned him that if he dared to deal with the matter of apologizing tomorrow, Lord Yan would never let him off lightly.

After receiving the intimidation, he almost stayed up all night. It was not a difficult choice to lose face or lose his official position.

Kneeling naked in front of the door in winter and being pointed at by others, he was filled with shame and indignation, and the exuberant fire rushed straight to his head, and his forehead was sweating for a while.

"Someone Gou came to plead guilty."

Seeing that the courtyard gate was always closed, Gou Shuli straightened up and shouted loudly into the courtyard.

Wei Wei was awakened by the noise outside the door, and she became very drowsy since she became pregnant.She was exhausted after the long journey from Liangzhou to the capital.Although she was still worried about her future, she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow after taking a hot bath and changing into the loose and comfortable clothes that Shang Wei's mother had prepared.

This sleep lasted more than six hours, and there was a voice coming from the ear.Opening her eyes slightly, she found that it was already daylight.

"What time is it?" she asked slightly grunting.

Next to him, Yan Heng turned over and hugged her in his arms: "Probably... Chenshi."

Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, the next one is Chen, Wei Wei counted on his fingers.At the time of Chen, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning.She fell asleep at seven o'clock last night, and has slept for thirteen hours now, which is the rhythm of sleeping forever.

"Get up."

Struggling to sit up forcibly, the stove in the room was still so hot after a night, even if I got out of bed, I didn't feel much discomfort.She slept soundly last night, only remembering that the person who hugged her had left several times in a daze.

"The stove is still so busy, did Ah Heng clean it up at night?"

Yan Heng nodded: "It's freezing outside, and if someone comes in, it's easy to bring in the air conditioner."

What kind of reason is this, Wei Wei looked at the main room adjacent to the west.Although the main room is a little colder, but the stove is still lit all the time, so it won't be freezing cold.

He made such a fuss because of her in the final analysis.

Putting on the sleeves of the pajamas indiscriminately, Wei Wei turned her head and kissed his chin.He didn't shave before going to bed last night, and now he has a new stubble on his chin.The young man's beard is not so hard, it is a little numb and itchy when it sticks softly on the face.

"What's the noise outside?"

Yan Heng hugged her contentedly, and listened intently.

"It should be yesterday that the scribe came to plead guilty."

Scribe?Wei Wei thought of it for a moment, and arched the quilt: "He came so early, are we getting up too late?"

"It's not too late, just let him wait."

Talking casually, Yan Heng took out two socks from the outside, got up and put them on for her.The socks are also specially made by Ulan's mother. The sheepskin is turned over, and there is a layer of soft wool inside, which does not feel cold when it directly touches the skin.

"It's a good thing the wool socks haven't been rummaged through."

Seeing this pair of socks, Wei Wei thought of yesterday's enmity. Ulan's mother was very happy when she heard that she was pregnant, so she specially made special clothes for her.However, most of those things were turned upside down by a bunch of soldiers, so that she didn't use them, and felt it was a waste to not use them.

What happened yesterday is still vivid in my mind, it doesn't matter if the perpetrator kneels for a while.

"Give me a better haircut later."

A good-looking bun is generally complicated, and it takes a long time to comb it.Knowing what she meant, Yan Heng, who was worried that he couldn't delay the time, didn't even want to agree.After serving his daughter-in-law to get dressed and helping her sit in front of the dressing table, he slowly smoothed her black hair.

The two began to scribble in the room, and Mother Wei in the east wing also cooperated very well.She felt that she was getting old, and the elderly would inevitably be a little deaf.Although there was a loud noise outside, she still pretended not to hear, put on her clothes and retracted under the quilt, turned over and continued to doze off.

Seeing the three masters like this, the servants in the courtyard are busy with their own work.Regarding the noisy sound outside the courtyard, they said: The sound of the bellows in the kitchen is too loud for us to hear.

In a courtyard, the master and servant pretended to be deaf and dumb and did not open the door for a long time, but more and more people came to watch the excitement after breakfast.The people in the neighborhood were full of interest, the master and servant in the courtyard were enjoying themselves while roasting in the stove, among the densely packed crowd, the only one who was not happy was the scribe Gou who was kneeling in front of the door.

Kneeling in front of the door shirtless, at first he was angry and kept out the cold.After a long time, the inner emotions could not resist the cold wind that drilled into the pores.Mrs. Gou, who had been following far behind, felt sorry for her husband-in-law, and stepped forward to put a coat on him, and she herself stood on the steps and knocked on the door.

"Open the door! Open the door! We came to apologize sincerely. Is this shutting people out deliberately embarrassing?"

Madam Gou's voice was loud enough that she stood in front of Wei's house and howled.

After a while, Wei Wei finally fixed her hairstyle, and Yan Heng put a high bun on her.I don't know how he did it, but his waist-length hair stood on top of his head, like the flying sky in the Dunhuang murals.The back is fixed with the finest filigree mahogany hairpin, and two or three filigree flowers the size of fingernails are scattered on the top of the head. The whole hairstyle is simple, refreshing and elegant.

Looking at the mercury mirror, Wei Wei revealed surprise.

"It makes me look a little fatter."

In the past, she worried about losing weight, but now she wished she could get fatter.When the Oirats besieged the city last year, she was just in shape.But since the half month of the siege, she lost weight because she couldn't eat well and sleep well.Later, she was able to eat after the war, and she kept worrying about it, but she didn't gain weight.Although this society is pregnant, the three-month pregnancy cannot be seen at all.

As soon as the doorman entered yesterday, my mother was very worried. With this hairstyle, it can always make her worry less.

Sure enough, when the two of them went out, Mother Wei who came out from the room on the east side showed a satisfied look on her face.

"Sure enough, if you're pregnant, you still need to rest well. You look a lot better after sleeping, and you even look fatter."

"Don't you see my mother is happy."

When the main house was celebrating, a woman's roar came from outside the door.Looking at each other, Yan Heng went into the room and brought her a fur to wrap her tightly, and the three of them walked to the gate together.

The door of Zhongwei's house finally opened after many calls, and Wei's mother stepped forward, but before she could speak, she was blocked by the oncoming woman.

"What time is it? Lord Yan really made us wait. It was my husband who did something wrong yesterday, but he came here early this morning to apologize sincerely. You just let him Waiting like this, what's the point of freezing people out of trouble?"

Many of the people who watched the excitement under the steps left, and those who stayed were all terrified of the cold. Hearing the woman's words, she felt the same way.

Wei's mother stepped out of the threshold with a serious expression: "I don't know if there is something wrong with the cold, but my daughter was frightened by your husband and son-in-law yesterday. She is a twin, and the pregnancy was not stable in the first three months. But Resting for a while and being so noisy by you, I think you are here today to find fault, or to apologize?"

Mrs. Gou jumped up: "Is your daughter so delicate?"

Other words are fine, Mother Wei has heard these words countless times from Mrs. Wei.What daughter is not important, should have embraced a brother who can't be beaten to inherit the family property.Mother Wei always scoffed at such claims, but now Madam Gou's words really pricked her lungs.

"My daughter is not delicate, are you delicate? Who is the one who came to apologize today? The Lord has not spoken yet, and it is your turn to jump up and down here, an unrelated person?"

"You!" Mrs. Gou was annoyed.

"No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak."

The Gou scribe who was kneeling below felt ashamed when he saw such a wife.He was equally aggressive, but the demeanor and eloquence of Mrs. Yan yesterday made him admire even a man.And his wife is even more vulgar than a country woman.If you can't do it, the poor and lowly wife really can't do it.

"Husband, it's obvious that they are bullying people too much. Look at how frozen you are? Your hair is almost frozen."

Returning to Gou Shuli, Mrs. Gou looked distressed.

Looking at Mrs. Gou who is not forgiving, Shuli Gou thinks that Xiao Cui, who is as tender as water at home, is better.Although Xiaocui is not as good as Mrs. Yan, at least she won't embarrass him.

Thinking of this, he became even more impatient: "I haven't apologized yet, and you offended Mr. Yan again. Really, the whole day will only add to the chaos."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the steps apologetically: "Lord Yan and Mrs. Yan, don't be as knowledgeable as her."

Wei Wei shook her head, she could see that Madam Gou had a good intention.Although the methods adopted were a bit rude, they were considered to be eager to protect the husband.But Gou's scribe's attitude is really chilling.

Yan Heng stood on the left side, blocking the northwestern wind of the capital in winter for her.Looking down into the crowd from a high position, it was easy for him to find the familiar figure of the informant.With four eyes facing each other, he moved his lips towards the informant.Seeing the informant dodge, a middle-aged woman and a young man got out of the crowd and knelt down in front of Gou Shuli.

"My lord, please return my grandson."

The young man also knelt down: "Lord Gou, please return Xiao Cui and my son to me."

Xiao Cui... If the confused scribe Gou is struck by lightning, isn't that his favorite concubine?
(End of this chapter)